I don’t understand your problem with a toll road?
I pay tolls in Houston. I get where I want to go.
I pay tolls in other states to get where I want to go.
How do you expect these new roads to get built?
With Obama’s stash?
The toll road through Texas is a Gateway project that was being promoted by Kaye Bailey Hutchison.
Not all Gateway projects are bad, but the connection to the Agenda 21 Wildlands project makes them all suspect.
In this case it looks as though it might not be such a bad idea, but only if the local people want the road, not if it is to benefit THROUGH Texas traffic rather than intra-Texas traffic.
I find it interesting that you chose to pick out one comment of my post, stating only that Perry didn't mention the issue of tollroads, to question why I had a problem with them while at the same time ignoring the other comments and the direct question to you. Regardless, here goes:
Roads can get built the way they always have - floating bonds, tax money, etc. T This push for toll-roads, run by foreign interests, is a relatively new phenomena. The "public private partnerships" being used are nothing more than state sanctioned monopolies, often referred to as soft fascism. Governors have gone along with these schemes because they are offered big cash advances that help erase their deficits and cover up fiscal mismanagement. How many highways have been converted to toll-roads in the past decade? Highways that were already paid for by taxpayer money; highways that were supposed to be maintained and expanded using additional "gas taxes" imposed on the citizens. Instead, those existing dollars have been squandered on other government programs leaving the well dry for transportation. In essence, toll roads and PPPs are being used to raid state assets, increase the size of government, and enrich foreign interests like Cintra and McQuarie. If you have no problem with that, so be it. But it cannot be ignored.